# new quota system

Roger Crew (rfc@microsoft.com)
Mon, 29 Apr 1996 13:14:08 PDT

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    > This is just absolutely not how to implement a money system.
    > Quota is a resource limit for programmers, not a VR commodity.
    > They are simply not interchangable concepts, period.

    actually, I would disagree.  In order to be meaningful, a monetary
    system has to have some commodity basis, whether we're talking about
    silver from the Federal Reserve, other RL goods & services, etc...
    allotments of scarce DB resources are just as good a basis as anything
    else.  My only problem is that I'd really like to see task queues and
    ticks/seconds, another scarce resource, should be included in this as
    well; ideally, you'd want to be able to charge people for calling your
    verbs so that you can pay for the ticks you use --- MOO unfortunately
    isn't set up for this.

    You may, of course, dislike the idea of programmers being able to
    accumulate DB "capital" and letting the invisible hand of the
    marketplace decide what gets built rather than having everything be
    centrally planned, or you may not want the question of what gets built
    being decided entirely by those who are most adept at hacking&slashing
    at VR monsters (the LP model), but these are different matters.
    >